| Parole bid denied for baby's killer
A 20-year-old serving time for killing his infant son was ordered transferred Friday from the juvenile system to the adult system. Nicholas Salinas of San Antonio sought to be paroled after serving 31/2 years in juvenile facilities. But in a hearing Friday, 289th District Judge Carmen Kelsey found Salinas had not made enough progress for parole and to fend off the transfer. With the move, it will be up to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to decide how much more of the 40-year sentence Salinas should serve behind bars. The Texas Youth Commission's recent evaluation of Salinas deemed that he had some violations in the system, had not advanced enough in his rehabilitation or fully accepted responsibility for killing Nicholas Salinas Jr., who was 3 months when he died Nov.
Let them eat pancakesi
Not too many years ago, the intersection of Church and 30th streets had a distinctly end-of-the-line, Hooterville flavor. It was there that Muni's J-Church streetcars ran out of track and had to turn themselves around for the voyage back to Market Street. The restaurants were a motley crew too, a helter-skelter bouquet of old, dimly lit places Italian, Burmese and a few brash arrivistes, such as Valentine's and Café J. .
A guide to garden shows
Although the groundhog predicted an early spring and at least one red-winged blackbird (true harbinger of the season) has been spotted in Central New Jersey, you and I know that there's a lot of frozen ground between here and spring. What's a gardener to do? Why, head to the flower and garden shows, of course. Coming right up are extravaganzas in New Jersey, Philadelphia and Rhode Island, each a burst of green for the chlorophyll-deprived. The former is near at hand, while the latter two suggest an amusing road trip or weekend getaway. Prepare yourselves for glory (The scents! The sights!), but arm yourself with a little healthy skepticism and a small dose of preparation. It is a giddy thing to wander the aisles, exclaiming over display gardens, replete with burbling fountains, exotic species, extensive brickwork and flower-laden trellises.
As Actors and Con Artists, They Know What it Takes
HOLLYWOOD -- In the 1960s, they were the sauve and debonair private eyes and spies who drew millions to TVs for weekly tongue-in-cheek adventures. Now, Robert Vaughn (``The Man From U.N.C.L.E.'') and Robert Wagner (``It Takes a Thief'') have reunited for a single episode of AMC's ``Hustle,'' an ``Ocean's Eleven''-type con series, in which the still-charming actors, both in their 70s, will match wits and tailors to charm a new generation of viewers. Vaughn stars in the ensemble British series, co-produced by AMC and BBC, as the only American member of an elite group of con artists specializing in the ``long con'' -- an elaborate sting whose marks always deserve it. In this episode, shot in Hollywood and airing in April to launch the show's fourth season, the group travels to California to trick Wagner, a shady millionaire, into thinking he can buy the Hollywood sign from them.
Legal troubles have Simon on the ropes
Money-wise, Simon is against the canvas. What a string of opponents in the boxing ring could never do - land a knockout punch against Namibia's former world champion boxer - Simon's former lawyers have managed to achieve in a dollars-and-cents sense. Financially, Simon has been cleaned out. He has had to pay tens of thousands of Namibia dollars to the lawyers who defended him in the Walvis Bay Regional Court during his trial on a charge of culpable homicide in 2005 and who were supposed to represent him in his intended appeal against the conviction and two-year prison sentence that he received at the end of that trial. Late last year, Simon had to borrow N$70 000 from a friend to pay more money to his lawyers for his appeal, Simon informed the High Court in an affidavit that was filed with the court last week.
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